Sanremo Festival 1972

Sanremo Festival 1972
output	22nd
date	24.-26. February
place	Casinò Municipale in Sanremo
Charisma	Programma Nazionale (TV), Secondo programma (radio)
Moderation	Mike Bongiorno with Sylva Koscina and Paolo Villaggio
Attendees	28 (with 28 songs)
winner	Nicola Di Bari  - I giorni dell'arcobaleno
◄ Sanremo 1971 • Sanremo 1973 ►

The 22nd edition of the Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo took place in 1972 from February 24th to 26th in the municipal casino in Sanremo and was moderated by Mike Bongiorno with Sylva Koscina and Paolo Villaggio .

procedure

The municipal casino, venue of the Sanremo Festival

In 1972, the organization of the festival passed to Elio Gigante on behalf of the casino. Before the start of the festival, however, singers and conductors announced a strike because irregularities in the pre-selection of participants were suspected. The protest leader was Claudio Villa , who was not admitted to the competition this time . However, on February 22, two days before the start, a group of singers announced that they would not take part in the strike, including Gianni Morandi , Lucio Dalla and Nada . Villa continued the protest very heatedly until the Rai promised to hold an additional evening for the singers who were not admitted to the competition.

In addition to Morandi, who was participating for the first time, Domenico Modugno (for the tenth time in Sanremo), Milva , Bobby Solo , Gigliola Cinquetti and Pino Donaggio were the big names in this edition . With Nicola Di Bari and Nada the previous year's winners were represented again, Ricchi e Poveri took part for the third time in a row. The Brazilian musician Roberto Carlos returned after four years and, with the Spanish band Aguaviva (second participation in a row), made up the now much smaller international field of participants. Notable newcomers were Marcella Bella , Carla Bissi (later known as Alice known) and the band Delirium of Ivano Fossati .

The biggest rule change was the elimination of the two versions: Since 1957, each song had been performed by two interpreters in different versions, from 1972 only one interpreter per song was provided (which also drastically reduced the number of participants). The 28 songs were only repeated instrumentally by Franck Pourcel . Seven songs were able to qualify for the final in each semi-finals. Nicola Di Bari, Nada and Gianni Morandi reached the final as favorites, Di Bari finally won (his second in a row).

Candidates

placement	Interpreter	song	Authors
1	Nicola Di Bari	I giorni dell'arcobaleno	Nicola Di Bari, Dalmazio Masini, Piero Pintucci
2	Peppino Gagliardi	Come le viole	Peppino Gagliardi, Gaetano Amendola
3	Nada	Il re di denari	Claudio Mattone, Franco Migliacci
4th	Gianni Morandi	Vado a lavorare	Franco Migliacci, Petaluma, Marcello Marrocchi, Vittorio Tariciotti
5	Gianni Nazzaro	Non voglio innamorarmi may	Moreno Signorini, Giancarlo Bigazzi
6th	delirium	Isaiahel	Oscar Prudente, Ivano Fossati
7th	Marcella Bella	Montagne verdi	Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gianni Bella
8th	Lucio Dalla	Piazza Grande	Lucio Dalla, Rosalino Cellamare , Gianfranco Baldazzi, Sergio Bardotti
9	Gigliola Cinquetti	Gira l'amore (Caro bebè)	Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace
10	Donatello	Ti voglio	Ricky Gianco, Gian Pieretti
11	Ricchi e Poveri	Un diadema di ciliegie	Romano Bertola
12	Milva	Mediterraneo	Luigi Albertelli, Enrico Riccardi
13	Lara Saint Paul	Se non fosse fra queste mie braccia lo inventory	Elide Suligoj, Luciano Beretta
14th	Domenico Modugno	Un calcio alla città	Domenico Modugno, Mario Castellacci , Riccardo Pazzaglia
	Rita Pavone	Amici may	Caviri, Massimo Cantini
	Pino Donaggio	Ci sono giorni	Vito Pallavicini , Pino Donaggio
	Aguaviva	Ciao amico ciao	Memo Remigi, Cristiano Minellono
	Anna Identici	Era bello il mio ragazzo	Gianni Guarnieri, Pier Paolo Preti
	Marisa Sacchetto	La foresta selvaggia	Paolo Limiti, Claudio Cavallaro
	Michele	Forestiero	Stefano Scandolara, Sergio Bardotti, Camillo Castellari, Corrado Castellari
	Roberto Carlos	Un gatto nel blu	Totò Savio, Giancarlo Bigazzi
	Carla Bissi	Il mio cuore se ne va	Memo Remigi, Spiker
	Delia	Per amore ricomincerei	Marisa Terzi, Alberto Salerno, Ciro Dammicco
	Angelica	Portami via	Mario Mellier, Luciana Medini
	Tony Cucchiara	Preghiera	Tony Cucchiara
	Bobby Solo	Rimpianto	Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli
	Fausto Leali	L'uomo e il cane	Fausto Leali, Milena Cantù
	I Nuovi Angeli	Un viaggio in Inghilterra	Ricky Gianco, Gian Pieretti

successes

All finalists were able to reach the top 25 of the charts, the most successful being Jesahel von Delirium. The song was also covered in several languages ​​after the competition: Shirley Bassey (English), Daisy Door (German), Nicoletta (French) and Kirka (Finnish) recorded versions of Jesahel .

Also Montagne verdi by Marcella Bella a greater success had granted in the charts than the competition.

Di Bari was also able to present his winning song at the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 in Edinburgh , where it came in sixth place (out of 18).

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1972	Jesahel delirium	IT1 (16 weeks) IT	Rank 6
	I giorni dell'arcobaleno Nicola Di Bari	IT2 (14 weeks) IT	1st place
	Montagne verdi Marcella Bella	IT3 (16 weeks) IT	7th place
	Il re di denari Nada	IT4 (14 weeks) IT	place 3
	Come le viole Peppino Gagliardi	IT5 (11 weeks) IT	place 2
1972	Vado a lavorare Gianni Morandi	IT8 (10 weeks) IT	4th place
	Ti voglio Donatello	IT8 (10 weeks) IT	Place 10
	Gira l'amore Gigliola Cinquetti	IT10 (14 weeks) IT	9th place
	Piazza Grande Lucio Dalla	IT10 (11 weeks) IT	8th place
	Non voglio innamorarmi mai Gianni Nazzaro	IT10 (9 weeks) IT	5th place
1972	Un diadema di ciliegie Ricchi e Poveri	IT15 (4 weeks) IT	11th place
	Un calcio alla città Domenico Modugno	IT19 (7 weeks) IT	14th place
	Mediterraneo Milva	IT21 (3 weeks) IT	12th place
	Se non fosse fra queste mie braccia lo inventory Lara Saint Paul	IT24 (2 weeks) IT	13th place

Web links

• Festival di Sanremo 1972 on Sorrisi.com (Italian)
• Sanremo 1972 on HitParadeItalia (Italian)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Isaiah. In: Coverinfo.de. Retrieved August 22, 2017 . 
2. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on May 31, 2017 (Italian, paid subscription access).